Staff Cloud Engineer & Tech Lead

Venmo; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 177,000 - 262,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Healthcare coverage

Paid time off

Job summary

Venmo is hiring a Cloud/DevOps Engineer in San Jose to lead major initiatives, guide architecture, and mentor engineers. You’ll focus on AWS-based infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and automation, while ensuring reliability across production and development systems.

You’ll work in a collaborative, data-driven environment with a strong emphasis on engineering rigor, security, and scalable operations, within Venmo’s PayPal-backed ecosystem.

Qualifications

• Bachelors and/or master's in computer science or related field.
• 7+ years of software development experience.
• 5+ years operating distributed applications 24x7 in Cloud/DevOps/SRE.

Responsibilities

• Lead major initiatives end-to-end across domains.
• Define design, stakeholders, risks, and delivery timelines.
• Mentor engineers and product teams on best practices.
• Coach teams to improve reliability and operational excellence.
• Collaborate with architects to drive cloud strategy.
• Develop and improve automation for scalable infrastructure.
• Troubleshoot incidents and implement preventive measures.
• Engineer with independence while ensuring team accountability.

Skills

Cloud engineering

DevOps

SRE

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Python

Go

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

CDK

Job description

Venmo is hiring a Cloud/DevOps Engineer in San Jose to lead major initiatives, guide architecture, and mentor engineers. You’ll focus on AWS-based infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and automation, while ensuring reliability across production and development systems.

You’ll work in a collaborative, data-driven environment with a strong emphasis on engineering rigor, security, and scalable operations, within Venmo’s PayPal-backed ecosystem.